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Cdl Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+1 grant · $285k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS | $285,000 |
| TRI-WOODS FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $151,500 |
| OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP PARISH | $131,875 |
| THE SEEDS OF FAITH CAMPAIGN | $100,000 |
| FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| RENEW THE I DO FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| MOVE A MOUNTAIN MISSIONS | $76,650 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSP | $75,000 |
| FOLDS OF HONOR | $56,500 |
| SUSAN B ANTHONY PROLIFE AMERICA | $50,000 |
| SISTERS OF LIFE | $50,000 |
| COLLEGE OF ST JOSEPH THE WORKER | $50,000 |
| LIVE ACTION | $50,000 |
| MARY'S PLACE | $25,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $493k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of Cdl Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 69% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
10 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- MAMOVE A MOUNTAIN MISSIONS3× · 2021–2024 · $473k · revenue +180% · 60% of their budget
- LALIVE ACTION2× · 2021–2024 · $100k · revenue +9%
- FOFOLDS OF HONOR EASTERN-PA-NJ-CHAPTER2× · 2023–2024 · $64k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- PCPREGNANCY CARE CENTERS DBA NETWORK OF LIFEone grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue -10%
- TCThe Center For Medical Progressone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +9%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $100k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
The mission of Magee-Womens Research Institute and Foundation is to advance scientific knowledge in the fields of reproductive biology and women's health; translate this knowledge into improved health for women and infants; train current…
St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.
To provide christian based outreach to clients by providing services and information free of charge to anyone in a crisis pregnancy situation, with the goal of assisting the client to carry the pregnancy to term and with continued care…
Desales is a catholic, salesian university that inspires transformative learning through the liberal arts and professional studies by energizing students to be who they are and be that well.
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
Divine Mercy Ministries, Inc. is a Christian maternity home for women 18 years of age and older facing unexpected pregnancies. Open to women of all faiths, it provides a loving and nurturing environment to meet the spiritual, physical,…
The Pregnancy Resource Center of the Poconos is committed to honoring GOD by sharing the hope we have in Jesus Christ, and affirming the sanctity of every human life in the Pocono area. The Center helps pregnant women who are in crisis to…
The pennsylvania pro-life federation, inc., is committed to promoting the dignity and value of human life from conception to natural death and to restoring legal protection for the unborn. through legislation, education and other legal…
Mission is to provide women facing an unplanned pregnancy with truthful medical information and education. we are faith-based with a mission to encourage, through education and outreach, the recognition of human life from the moment of…
La roche university advances learning informed by ethical and service-oriented values, reflecting its catholic heritage and the charism of the sisters of divine providence.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Renew the I Do Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 17% of your grantees by number, and just 13% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 45 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MOVE A MOUNTAIN MISSIONS ↗
- Who funds RENEW THE I DO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRI-WOODS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY CARE CENTERS DBA NETWORK OF LIFE ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE ↗
- Who funds LIVE ACTION ↗
- Who funds The Center For Medical Progress ↗
- Who funds Susan B Anthony List Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR EASTERN-PA-NJ-CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds Students for Life of America Inc ↗
- Who funds College of St Joseph the Worker Inc ↗
- Who funds DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ↗
- Who funds WOODLANDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Variety the Childrens Charity ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY CHRISTIAN OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds DRY BONES MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds PINE-RICHLAND YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds TASH INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Usher Family Foundation · J & M Didonato Family Foundation · Aj and Sigismunda Palumbo Charitable Trust · Eqt Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Cdl Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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